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Originally Posted by BetterRed
The only applications I've needed to fix after an upgrade to Win 10, were browser add-ons (easily fixed) and Security Suites - as a result I uninstall any Security Suites (with dynamite if necessary) before doing any upgrade.
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Browser addons are fairly easy.
I'm contrary on Security Suites. I don't
run them. I have Windows Defender active here mostly to keep Windows quiet.
Security suites try to protect you against viruses and malware. I view both as infections, and infections have vectors through which they enter the host. Ward the vector, and block the infection.
The primary vector for viruses is email. I use Gmail as my primary account. I read and reply to mail in my browser, and I'm happy to let my mailstore reside on Google's servers. I don't need a local copy of mail. Gmail implements viewers for all common attachment types, so I can look at them without them every actually reaching my machine. And the sort of email that might have malicious content in an attachment is they sort of thing that gets flagged as spam. I used to run Symantec Corporate A/V, courtesy of a corporate site license. The version I was running reached End Of Life and would no longer get signature updates. I no longer worked for that employer, so a new version would be on my dime. The only things it had ever "caught" had been false positives. I asked myself whether I needed A/V, concluded I didn't, and dropped it. It hasn't been missed.
The vector for email is the browser, and most exploits target IE. I run Firefox as my production browser on Windows and Linux, with some add-ons to block malicious content. I
don't run "active" anti-malware software. I have the Malware Bytes freeware malware scanner here un Windows, run it occasionally, and it never finds anything. I warded the vector.
Security products assume you will be compromised and try to limit the damage and clean up afterward. I prefer not to get compromised in the first place.
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One other tip, avoid Windows 10 Home, IMO some of the things it leaves out (such as WU customisation and Group Policy editor) are essential - its crazy that users of Windows Home are expected to edit the registry manually, whilst users of Windows Pro get a GUI tool to to the same thing. They should have had just two major versions - Consumer (Pro) and Enterprise.
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Getting Group Policy Editor was a reason for wanting Pro editions of Windows over the Home versions. I've made use of it. One thing I've needed to do was run scripts on startup and shutdown. Startup scripts can be handled with Task Scheduler. Shutdown scripts are problems, because you need a way to trap the shutdown event and run a script when it occurs. Group Policy Editor lets you do that, but Home editions don't have that.
It hasn't been an issue on the SO's laptop which came with Win7 Hopme and upgraded to Win10 Home, but her needs are simple. Mine are more complicated.
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Dennis